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A brand new mild is being shone on the problem of home violence due to a not too long ago launched video documenting an abuser that occurs to be well-known. However many victims are by no means put in the identical highlight.
One home violence sufferer advised WINK Information that whereas violence documented on video is uncommon, violence is perpetrated each day.
The disturbing video has despatched shockwaves throughout the nation. Christy Carpenter is a survivor of home violence. “It was a brutal, brutal assault,” Carpenter stated.
For her, seeing that video was like reliving a nightmare. “What I skilled was similar to that was there was him punching her standing over her together with his energy and his power. And whereas she was curled however defenseless towards somebody of that stature,” Carpenter stated. “And with that quantity of confidence that they’d a proper to be doing this to you.”
Sure, she did say that he was assured he had the correct to try this to her. However Carpenter additionally says to not get caught up in the truth that the violent assault was caught on video. “I might, I might, I might enterprise to say out loud that this occurs on daily basis, in regular folks’s family, and never simply you already know, know, a seemingly indignant NFL soccer participant, proper? It occurs in all places,” she stated.
A viewer requested WINK information if Zach Stacy would face extra time in jail for destroying a tv than for assaulting the mom of his five-month-old little one. So, we requested Pamella Seay, a professor of justice research at Florida Gulf Coast College.
“Due to the violence, and the acute violence of this act towards this individual, not solely is it a is it home violence, it is usually a felony,” Seay stated.
And also you and you might take a look at wherever as much as 30 years in jail for what he… what he really did,” stated Seay.
Survivors of home violence say that the takeaway isn’t the video however that these kinds of assaults occur every day.
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Sources
Charlotte County
Heart for Abuse and Rape Emergencies
Telephone: 941-639-5499
Hotline: 941-627-6000
SMS Textual content: 941-449-8534
TDD: 941-627-6000
Web site: carefl.org
Chat: resourceconnect.com
Collier County
The Shelter for Abused Girls & Kids
Telephone: 239-775-3862
Hotline: 239-775-1101
TDD: 239-775-4265
Web site: naplesshelter.org
DeSoto County
Secure Place and Rape Disaster Heart
Telephone: 941-365-0208
Hotline: 941-365-1976
TDD: 941-365-1976
Web site: sparcc.net
Glades County
Abuse Counseling and Remedy
Telephone: 239-939-2553
Hotline: 239-939-3112
TDD: 239-939-3112
Web site: actabuse.com
Hendry County
Abuse Counseling and Remedy
Telephone: 239-939-2553
Hotline: 239-939-3112
TDD: 239-939-3112
Web site: actabuse.com
Lee County
Abuse Counseling and Remedy
Telephone: 239-939-2553
Hotline: 239-939-3112
TDD: 239-939-3112
Web site: actabuse.com
Beneath are psychological well being sources obtainable to Southwest Floridians on the nationwide and native ranges.
Nationwide Suicide Prevention Hotline
1-800-273-8255
suicidepreventionlifeline.org
David Lawrence Heart (Collier County)
(239)455-8500
davidlawrencecenter.org
SalusCare (Lee County)
(239)275-4242
saluscareflorida.org
Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness, Collier County
namicollier.org
Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry Counties
namilee.org
The Nationwide Alliance for Caregiving affords a free handbook
Circle of Care: A Guidebook for Mental Health Caregivers
Collier County Psychological Well being Court docket
ca.cjis20.org/home/collier
Lee County Psychological Well being Court docket
ca.cjis20.org/home/lee
Despair and Bipolar Assist Alliance
convio.net
Native Assist Teams: Nervousness and Despair Affiliation of America
adaa.org
U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies (Psychological Well being and Habit Insurance coverage Assist)
hhs.gov/programs/topic-sites/mental-health-parity
Native veterans useful resource: Dwelling Base SWFL
https://homebase.org/home-base-southwest-florida/
